The Song "Blue" and the Band That Made It Quiz

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1. Before we get on to Eiffel 65s most famous song, can you tell me what album it was featured on?

Answer: Europop

The album was called "Europop". "Lucky (In My Life)" and "Move Your Body" are tracks off of "Europop", and "Too Much Of Heaven" is a later released single credited to Zorotl, the blue alien from the "Blue" video. This technically made Zorotl a virtual group like Gorillaz or Alvin and the Chipmunks.

2. Given where the band is from, they chose an odd name for themselves. If they went back in time they might have chosen a different one than they did. Where is this "Blue" band from?

Answer: Italy

That's right! Even though they are an Italian band, they decided that they would choose the name Eiffel for themselves rather than Pisa! Two of the members are pure Italian, while the lead singer is actually Italian American, so I guess they could also have gone with Coit - shout out to all the San Franciscans taking this quiz!

3. As to awards, the group was nominated for a Grammy for Best Dance Recording. They took home a World Music Award for World Best Selling Group (from their country), but most amazingly, and yet totally unsurprisingly, they won a BMI award for what?

Answer: Most-broadcast song on radio in the United States

This all rather speaks for itself, except that while the song was certified platinum in nine markets including the UK and Australia, it surprisingly wasn't in the USA, where it still peaked at number six on the Billboard Hot 100.

4. What does the number at the end of the band's name have in common with Rolling Rock beer and Bugs Bunny?

Answer: Printer's error

When the band wrote down their name on a layout for their graphic designer, they did not realize that one of the members had written down a phone number on the paper containing the name. The "65" in the number poked through and so Eiffel 65 was born.

Rolling Rock has a 33 at the end of the description of the beer on the back of the bottle. This is simply the number of words used in the copy, but the word count got left in and it has spawned conspiracies about it from Devil worship to CIA codes.

Originally, the bunny was just a bunny drawn on speck and left in a pile of others with the word "bunny" written on it. However, to differentiate it from the other drawings, some enterprising young clerk labeled it "Bugs' Bunny", because the artist who drew it was Ben "Bugs" Hardaway. Somewhere along the line the apostrophe got dropped and Bugs Bunny was born.

5. What year was the song "Blue" released? This was a year before Prince had his most famous musical party and the same year as the Nagano Olympics and Bill Clinton's impeachment.

Answer: 1998

"'Cause they say
2000, zero-zero, party over, oops, out of time
So tonight, I'm gonna party like it's 1999"

Though if you were partying while listening to the brand-new release of "Blue" then, it would have had to have been 1998. Japan could have been listening to it while sliding down the slopes and the Americans while wondering what the meaning of "is" is. That said the October release might have made that difficult as well.

6. The poor man in the song is blue, and so is everything around him. Which blue thing in his life is NOT mentioned in the lyrics to the song? He says the following - I have cut out more words than the hints to make it slightly more difficult. "I have a blue _____ with a blue ____ Blue is the _____ of _______ Blue are the streets and all the ______ are too I have a _________ so blue Blue are the people here that walk around Blue like my _____, it's standing outside Blue are the words I say and what I think Blue are the feelings that live inside me"

Answer: Waffle

While a blue house, with a blue window, a blue girlfriend, and even possibly a blue car might all bring me down, a blue waffle is always good for a smile. Though possibly not popular in the rest of the world, frozen blueberry waffles are sold in the USA and are a great breakfast treat. I still love smothering them in fresh syrup, though for health reasons I should probably not eat so many.

Here are the full lyrics quoted above.

"I have a blue house with a blue window
Blue is the color of all that I wear
Blue are the streets and all the trees are too
I have a girlfriend and she is so blue
Blue are the people here that walk around
Blue like my Corvette, it's standing outside
Blue are the words I say and what I think
Blue are the feelings that live inside me"

7. Known as a quite an earworm, "Blue" was released only a few months before another song came out that tore through our brains with near equal destruction. Which of the following songs was that earworm? If you don't know, go ask Angela, Pamela, Sandra, or Rita.

Answer: Mambo No. 5

Oh My God!! "The horror, the horror", of living with both of those songs on endless rotation on the radio in early 1999! Amazingly, Lou Bega was yet another Euro pop creation. Though he looks and sounds like he is from Queens, NY, the man is a German! Before I heard "Mambo No. 5" I thought the worst thing they did to the world was...but to quote Basil Fawlty, "Don't mention the war."

8. The video for "Blue" is bizarre and seemingly bears little relation to the song whatsoever. Basically, what happens in the video?

Answer: The lead singer is abducted during a concert by blue aliens

The video is offensively horrible. The entire thing is the worst possible CGI of blue aliens traveling through space to kidnap the lead singer of the band for no apparent reason. The NME voted it one of the 50 worst music videos of all time. If you happen to watch this piece of trash, realize that all of the work that DIDN'T go into making this watchable DID go into naming the aliens (why?!?!), who are called Zorotl and Sayok6.

9. The song and album were released on which label? If the answer is a MYSTERY then perhaps you should switch on the MACHINE you call a brain in your SHAGGY head and think of which GREAT DANE might have produced it.

Answer: Skooby

Skooby Records was a personal imprint of Bliss Corporation that grew out of the short-lived Bliss Team Eurodance group. The main members of Eiffel 65 were scouted and hired by the head of Bliss, Massimo Gabutti. Skooby Records is still listed on some sites, but only in connection with Eiffel 65, while Bliss is still going strong and still producing in Italy.

10. Finally, to get to some less earwormy music. Though most people think the song is called "I'm Blue", it is actually just called "Blue". If you do an internet search for a song titled, "I'm Blue", which is LEAST likely to come up?

Answer: "Whoosh, Blue Whale" - Pink Fong

The David Guetta & Bebe Rexha version is a remix of the Eiffel 65 original and so pops up constantly. The Bill Monroe bluegrass classic is a legend and worth a listen. "The Gong-Gong Song" is one of the best songs of the 60s (1961) and a real banger! "Gong-Gong" is the subtitle, but its main title is "I'm Blue". For those of us who grew up in the 80s, you might recognize the hook from Salt-N-Peppa's "Shoop"!! "The Whoosh, Blue Whale" song is a bow to the greatest earworm that has ever existed in this or any other universe, "Baby Shark"! Pink Fong is the studio responsible for drilling that securely into our brains. That said, nowhere in the title or the lyrics of "Whoosh, Blue Whale" is there "I'm Blue".

Source: Author misdiaslocos

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This quiz is about the hit song "(I'm) Blue" and includes questions about the band that made it. Good luck at keeping this song out of your brain from the instant you read the title of this quiz.

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